More boxed than bottled.

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In conversation with Oregon oenophiles, California is a
curse word. John Vincent and Vivian Perry capitalize on this fiery state
pride with Winemakers of the Willamette Valley: Pioneering Vintners
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Robert Boswell: 103.

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Tumbledown (Graywolf, 429 pages, $26) is a book
about shallow love, lust and sex in a mental institution. The plot is a
complicated web of love triangles, and by the end you’ll know
exactly—
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Keep away from Curtis White’s brain!

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If his new book, The Science Delusion: Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers (Melville
House, 224 pages, $24), is any guide, Curtis White has the same
nightmare every night: Richar
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Burning bulldozers and choking mountain lions.

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Tenaya, the protagonist of Graphic the Valley
(Tyrus, 265 pages, $24.95), was born in the back of an old Plymouth just
west of the iconic El Capitan peak in Yosemite National Park. Midway
thro
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From Creek Bed to Dog Hotel.

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Slabtown is not a name that resonates gladly in the hearts
of Realtors. Today, the moniker most often refers only to a thin patch
of inassimilable real estate around the I-405 freeway overpass, a
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